Platform Ventures’ Ariana Nelson on the growing interest in cold storage within investment portfolios

Ariana Nelson, senior vice president and head of investor relations at Platform Ventures, sits down with i3 editor Kali Persall to discuss what factors are driving the growing interest in cold storage within investment portfolios, how cold storage blurs the traditional boundaries between real estate and infrastructure, misconceptions about cold storage, and why it may be time to rethink the “alternative” investment label for this subasset class. (05/2025)

Nelson’s recent article, The case for cold storage: Why the sector sits at the intersection of real estate and infrastructure, which published in the May issue of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3), can be accessed here.